During a certain point in time, Ridesharing Forum became friends with ghost kitchens, or virtual kitchens without a brick-and-mortar storefront, preparing food and delivering them. However, with this new proposal wherein Uber Eats would take down those “fake ghost kitchens” from your neighorhood, is it friendship over?
Ghost kitchens are amazing, provided that they don’t scam people. This is the ulterior reason why Uber Eats decided to take this route.
One of the world’s most popular food delivery apps is looking at substantially reducing the number of “ghost kitchens” or “virtual restaurants” from the app, technically from the neighborhood, too.
These delivery-only restaurants on the Uber Eats app don’t have an in-person store, but listed under the umbrella of the similar address as another restaurant since they may also be run by that restaurant.
For instance, there are ghost kitchens like It’s Just Wings run by Chili’s, Cosmic Wings managed by Applebee’s, Tender Shack by Outback Steakhouse, and Pasqually’s Pizza & Wings by Chuck E. Cheese.
In a previous report on this site, some customers are being duped by these fake ghost kitchens when they order a particular food only to receive the wrong food.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Uber Eats operates over 40,000 virtual restaurants, also known as ghost kitchens, up from 10,000 in 2021.
There are also cases when Uber Eats has listings of a popular deli in the Big Apple, but has 14 different names.
Uber Eats, though, wants to clarify that it is only cracking down on the really extreme cases, but these cases are numbered to 5,000!
Is this agreeable or not with you? What are the bases for Uber Eats saying that these restaurants are fake? Share your insights here on Ridesharing Forum, and tell the community your ideas and opinions.
Signing up on Uber Eats as a virtual restaurant is generally allowed, but there are official guidelines that manage this process. For example, the menu of the ghost kitchen must be at the very least 60 percent different from the menu in their parent restaurant or any other businesses running out of the similar venue.
Ridesharing media recommend using Google Maps to verify if the restaurant you are ordering from is authentic, as a verification process will likely be in place before this regulation materializes. For more food delivery and ridesharing news, keep browsing Ridesharing Forum.